Category Archives: App Store
Hands on with AnyPlay: Live Comcast video on your iPad
Haven’t heard of AnyPlay? That’s not surprising. It’s a small initiative slowly being introduced by Comcast into select cable markets.
With it, you can watch live television over your home network on your iPad. So if your spouse is hogging the HDTV during your CW night, you can watch Supernatural using your local Wi-Fi. (Cablevision and Time Warner have similar apps on the App Store now.)
AnyPlay consists of two parts: there’s the standalone box ($10 one-time charge) and the iPad software, which is built into Comcast’s existing XFINITY TV app. To get them to work together, you must sign into the app with your Comcast credentials and enable AnyPlay using the app’s settings.
On the hardware side of things, Comcast provides a media streamer box — a Motorola unit in my case. Its job is to manage devices and convert cable signals into viewable video streams. Those streams currently must be on the same Wi-Fi network, although I think with a little hacking and AirVideo Server, it might be possible to eventually get those streams to travel out to mobile devices away from the home. With the standard package, AnyPlay is in-home only.
Daily iPhone App: NFL Flick Quarterback
If you want to pass like Tom Brady from the comfort of your living room chair, then you should grab a copy of NFL Flick Quarterback for the iPhone.
The app is a flick-style passing game that lets you take on the role of an NFL quarterback. The game isn’t a full-fledged football simulation like Madden 2012, but a passing game as its name suggests.
Even though it focuses on only one aspect of the gridiron game, NFL Flick Quarterback is a lot of fun. You star as a quarterback of your favorite team and get to choose your jersey number. Your goal is to complete passes to receivers down field. Sounds easy until you throw in a defender or two who’ll try to deflect your pass.
Five apps for Super Bowl Sunday
The Super Bowl is just around the corner which means it’s time to get ready for the big game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots.
Rather than our usual five apps, I couldn’t contain myself and, instead, put together five categories of apps that’ll set you up nicely for food, football and fun this coming Sunday.
Official NFL and Team Apps
if you want to learn more about the Patriots’s offense and the Giants’s defense, then you should download each team’s iOS app. The Giants have a free app for the iPhone, while the Patriots have chosen to go iPad-only with a magazine-style app. The Patriots Football Daily app has a free 7-day trial followed by a paid subscription.
The NFL also has a suite of apps to commemorate the game. Each Super Bowl XLVI app is filled with statistics, images and more about current and past Super Bowl match ups.
Readdle previews Remarks iPad app at Macworld iWorld 2012
During Macworld | iWorld 2012 last week, I had the opportunity to meet with Denys Zhadanov of Readdle. If you’re not familiar with Readdle’s products, you might be new to the iOS world. The company has been around for four years and has sold over 3.5 million iOS apps, most of them used for reading and annotating PDF files.
The company’s newest entry into this market should be hitting the App Store any day now. Called Remarks, the app will sell for US$4.99 and is used to open, edit, and then save and distribute PDF files. My favorite part of the demonstration was when Denys opened a magazine file, tapped several pages, and created a new PDF file with annotations within seconds. Remarks has some unique navigation tools for precisely locating text or handwritten annotations, and it can save in either regular (layered) or flattened PDF formats.
App Store adds pop-up information windows
Italian Apple blog Ispazio pointed out [Google translation] an interesting new iTunes App Store feature late last week: pop-up windows that appear with a click, making most descriptive information available without having to reload a full page. This feature is available in the Mac and Windows versions of the App Store.
By hovering over an icon in the App Store, a small “info” icon appears, denoting that more information is available for viewing prior to purchasing an app. Clicking the “i” immediately displays a pop-up window with several tabs displaying a description of the app, the “What’s New” information describing updates, and screenshots for iPhone and iPad if applicable.
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